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COMMUNITY, CONFLICT AND THE STATE
RETHINKING NOTIONS OF 'SAFETY', 'COHESION' AND 'WELLBEING' |
| By: |
Charlie Cooper |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£50.92 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230582125 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230582125 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
24 September, 2008 |
| Description: |
Community safety is a narrowly defined concept that allows states to ignore arguably more serious threats caused by pro-market policies and the actions of major corporations. This book redresses the idea of what constitutes a social harm and outlines a new policy agenda. |
| Synopsis: |
Traditional understandings of what constitutes community safety have created a skewed understanding of crime and disorder that ignores the real threats to community cohesion and wellbeing. State-sponsored community safety strategies focus on property crime, street violence, drugs and fear of crime. While these issues should be of concern to policy makers and practitioners, this ground breaking study argues that such policies ignore more serious threats to community safety caused by the activities of the powerful -- i.e. social harms caused by pro-market policies, such as the effects of welfare cut-backs on life chances -- or by the actions of major corporations -- such as environmental pollution. This book redresses a gap in social policy and criminology by offering a different conceptual understanding of community safety, based on a more proportionate understanding of social harms inflicted on communities.Analysing how notions of 'community' and 'conflict' have been used and understood in relation to 'safety', 'cohesion' and 'wellbeing' in British social policy, this study critiques the practical policy-oriented application of these ideas, particularly in relation to 'community wellbeing'. Concluding with radical suggestions for future social policy, the author offers practical proposals for researching and working with communities in empowering ways, which offer greater prospects for enhancing the social wellbeing of the many. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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